Reality Check by Dave Whamond for September 18, 2019

That seems to be the only kind of history they teach any more.

Watch the news kids. It’s happening as you speak.

Some states are writing their own text books in their way of thinking, like Texas, and a few other southern states….to teach them the “Christian way”. If it’s anything like the trump Christian followers, we’re in deep doo doo

Just remember, the one who wins writes the history.

Paul Revere warned colonists with a kazoo and lantern.

America wasn’t founded by patriots longing for freedom from unfair taxes and repressive state-defined religions. It was founded by a bunch of disgusting slave owners. And that is ALL you need to know.

Those who refuse to learn from history condemn the rest of us to relive it.

They revised it so you don’t repeat it.

“With every era, our “heroes” are disclaimed, and history books rewritten. As the culture and the ideology change, history changes."

ALL history is revisionist. Who’d want to read a book on WWII written before the Russian archives opened up in the 1990s? New info=new histories. Each generation looks at events people, ideas, etc. through their own particular lens (values, current events, etc.). Obviously, facts are relatively static, but interpretations/perspectives and even what facts are used are always in flux.

The Who’s song “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is about revolution, but one that hasn’t happened. It’s kind of a warning for the future…interesting.